| Los Angeles Times - Not Recommended
"...The cast is certainly lively — Yvette Cason’s snappy, streetwise Angel and Megan Sikora as Melody’s party-hearty sidekick practically do cartwheels for laughs. But nothing can prevent this dead-on-arrival show from being shipped straight to the comedy morgue."
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Variety - Not Recommended
"...As helmed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, the hijinks consistently push the bounds of believability and taste, less likely to stick under your skin than in your craw."
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LA Weekly - Not Recommended
"...Despite a smattering of clever one-liners and decent comedic performances in this production, this new play by Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser suffers under the tedious weight of predictable situational comedy and a host of one-note characters for whom it’s difficult to care."
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Stage and Cinema - Not Recommended
"...If the comedy in Under My Skin were any more broad, it would require a wider stage than the one at the Pasadena Playhouse. If the play were any less funny, it would have to wear a black armband. But it is well-intentioned, and so this blithely degrading show cannot be despised with the totality of vehemence it would otherwise deserve."
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Stage Scene LA - Recommended
"...That’s probably why I proved such a sucker for the Pasadena Playhouse’s season opener Under My Skin, a body-swapping comedy by Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser that takes the genre from screen to stage to hilarious effect, even as it updates it to our 2012 world and gives it a particularly inspired twist that only one of the above movies has even vaguely attempted."
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ReviewPlays.com - Recommended
"...Under My Skin, written by Robert Sternin and Prudence Fraser, husband and wife team (Who’s the Boss?, The Nanny, Happily Divorced, and many others), and directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge (Ragtime), is just one of those plays that lets you forget things for the moment and to simply relax and enjoy some amusing entertainment."
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Examiner - Recommended
"...This zany look at love, sex, death and healthcare will have you screaming with laughter."
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The Tolucan Times - Recommended
"...OK folks … this is an outlandishly implausible, outrageously hilarious, and certifiably whacky production! Ambitiously directed by Marcia Milgrom Dodge, and brilliantly performed by a quirky cast of eight, this is a twisted and inventive “mind trip!”"
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ArtsBeatLA - Not Recommended
"...Opportunities for real reflection are too little, too late and turn what might be a clever premise into schlock."
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LA Stage Times - Recommended
"...This is a populist, often hilarious comedy that provides a human perspective on one of America’s knottiest current issues."
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TheatreMania - Not Recommended
"...Perhaps to compensate for the play’s weaknesses, Dodge allows the cast to hammer every line to death so that you resent the jokes instead of laugh at them."
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The Stage Struck Review - Recommended
"...In the hands of Sternin and Fraser, the results are fall-out-of-your chair funny, in some cases simply because they are so honest in addressing the base mechanics of gender difference and sexual response."
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Grigware Blogspot - Recommended
"...The issues never reach the level of full dramatic conflict, though, as a sitcom-like comedy style takes control, and it’s utter bliss for all concerned, now at the Pasadena Playhouse through October 7."
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